cover image Saint

Saint

Christine Bell. Washington Square Press, $6.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-63847-4

Rubia (nee Susan), a transplanted New Yorker whose marriage to Frederico has condemned her to 15 years on an isolated South American hacienda, learns that while she has been tending his sick mother, Frederico has been having an affair. ""Passion, described with gusto, fuels this off-beat sexual comedy,'' PW noted. (July)